pooped

1. 1
   adjectiveslang

   Tired out, with no energy left.

   Three hours of moving furniture, and I'm completely pooped.

   By the end of the reception, even the bride looked pooped.

   Similarexhausted, beat, bushed, knackered, drained

   Oppositeenergetic, rested

   Note

   Friendly slang that usually follows be or feel: I'm pooped, we were all pooped by noon. It is the word for the end of a long day, whether in The Simpsons ("A good time was had by all. I'm pooped") or in Jeff Alt's A Walk For Sunshine after 35 miles on foot. It grades with more and most, not with -er.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of poop.

   By the third mile, half the runners had pooped out.

   A following sea pooped the little sloop and flooded its cockpit.

   Note

   A regular -ed form whose company decides which verb you are hearing. With out it means giving up from tiredness (half the runners had pooped out); with a boat as object it is the sea breaking over the stern; said of a puppy and a rug, it is the colloquial bodily verb. As adjectives the same spelling gives the slang for tired and the sailor's word.

3. 3
   adjective

   Having been hit by a wave that comes over the stern from behind.

   Running before the storm, the yacht was pooped twice and its cockpit filled with water.

   The crew of the pooped trawler spent an hour bailing out the flooded stern.

   Note

   Mostly a predicate, said of the boat after the fact: we were pooped. Rider Haggard's She gives the experience from on deck, "a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam," and then simply "We were pooped." The danger comes in a following sea, when a wave overtaking the boat breaks over the stern and floods the deck or cockpit.

4. 4
   adjective

   Fitted with a poop deck, the raised deck at a ship's stern.

   Note

   A builder's description rather than an event: a pooped ship has a poop, the raised deck at the stern, much as a decked boat has a deck. Context keeps it apart from the storm meaning, which says what a wave did to that stern rather than how it was built.

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